To determine intention to breastfeed (ITBF) rates among mothers exclusively using marijuana (eMJ) compared with electronic cigarettes (eEcig), tobacco products (eTob), or multisubstances (MS), nonusers (NU), and the influence of paternal presence and paternal substance use. Cross-sectional study of parental survey responses merged with electronic birth certificates. Accounting for clinical and social determinants of health, analyses of ITBF included (1) all mothers, (2) single mothers, and (3) mothers with fathers. Among all mothers ( = 1,073), eMJ, eTob, and MS users had lower odds of ITBF compared with NU. Only eMJ users had lower odds of ITBF for those without paternal presence. However, in those mothers with a paternal presence, odds of ITBF were similar to NU for eMJ, eTob, and MS users when accounting for paternal factors, including paternal substance use. Women exclusively using MJ have lower ITBF compared with NU. However, paternal presence mitigated this effect, independent of parental MJ use. The presence of fathers may represent a unique predictor for increased ITBF in MJ using mothers.
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Biol Lett
January 2025
Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Strict maternal inheritance of mitochondria is known to be the rule in animals, but over 100 species across six orders of bivalves possess doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondria. Under DUI, two distinctive sex-specific mitogenomes coexist. In marine and freshwater mussels, each mitogenome has an additional protein-coding gene, called female- and male-specific open reading frame or and , respectively.
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Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Laboratório de Genética e Evolução Molecular, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
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Sci Rep
December 2024
Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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